Chutzpah Watch

“[The Obama administration’s] refusal to act will go down as one of the great mistakes in American foreign-policy history, and will have dire consequences for our own national security in the years to come. I truly fear the decisions they are making today will come back to haunt us,” - Lindsey Graham, the unrepentant backer of the Iraq war.

The war cost up to a trillion borrowed dollars, thousands of American lives, tens of thousands of American casualties, tens of thousands of Iraqi lives, and seems to have resulted in replacing a crazy anti-Iranian dictator with a smarter, Iranian-influenced one.

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